The Martin DX1AE features a solid Sitka spruce top, mahogany pattern HPL back and sides and Martin's D1 style bracing for stability and resonance. C.F. Martin & Co. has always made a prudent use of natural resources, especially rare or enda... Read more
With it's solid spruce top and cypress back and sides this is an excellent affordable Flamenco guitar Read more
The sound of the Blue Ridge Mountains rings true! Introducing the new Bristol BD-16 Dreadnaught guitar and BM-16 "000" guitar by the makers of Blueridge guitars. Named after the city of Bristol, Tennessee - known best as the "Birthplace of Country Music" and home of the museum sharing it's name. Each Bristol guitar has all the best features one would expect from a professional grade guitar. The tops are made of spruce while the back, sides and slim, fast neck with adjustable truss rod are made from mahogany. All are combined to make the perfect instrument for any player to faithfully explore traditional American folk music or any other style! Play with confidence knowing that each guitar is manufactured using the same skill and quality materials as the already world famous line of professional quality Blueridge guitars. Join us on this musical journey with all roads leading to Bristol. Read more
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Solid Sitka Spruce top that just gets better with age. Features a solid Mahogany neck, a Rosewood fingerboard and die-cast tuners for excellent tuning stability. Read more
Features solid Sitka spruce top, nato back and sides, die-cast tuners and a rosewood fingerboard. Black and white body binding and a tortoise pickguard offer sumptuous looks belying the tiny price tag. Read more
The FG700S Folk Acoustic Guitar is a great entry-level acoustic guitar with deluxe features including die-cast tuners, solid Sitka spruce top, and a rosewood fingerboard. Black and white body binding. Read more
Several models in the A&L line are made with solid cedar or spruce tops. A solid top guitar will require a little more care in terms of exposure to heat and humidity, but the upside is significant. A solid top guitar will not only produce richer sound and better dynamic range but has the added benefit of improving over time. That's right, similar to the phenomena that makes bowed instruments such as the violin better sounding with playing over time, a solid top guitar becomes better sounding over time. This is called 'aging'. Not surprisingly, the cedar and spruce used in instrument building is not your garden-variety, lumberyard wood. The giant cedar and spruce logs that we use in guitar building comes from trees that are hundreds of years old and more than six feet in diameter. The tight, straight grain in this wood makes it flexible in the direction running across the grain while at the same time, stiff in the direction of the grain. This property is what allows the guitar top to be strong enough to support the pull from the strings while remaining flexible enough to produce the vibration necessary for full, rich sound. Read more
